FEATURED SPEAKER: Peter Hurst United Nations International Labor Organizer PANELISTS: Courtney Berner, Willy Street Co-op Sarah Lloyd, Wisconsin Farmers’ Union Peter Hurst and the panelists […]

The Dane County Food Council and Dane County UW Extension, with the help of other community partners, will host the 2014 Food Summit on October […]

Make your gift to CIAS go twice as far! Through Dec. 7, Waseda Farms will match donations from individuals.

With the 2014-15 school year right around the corner, CIAS has updated two popular farm to school resources. The Wisconsin Farm to School Toolkits for school nutrition programs and producers can help you create a successful farm to school program in your community.

The Wisconsin Cut Flower Growers School is a two-day workshop designed to help new and beginning growers learn the ins and outs of producing and […]

CIAS supports innovative graduate student research addressing the challenges faced by small- and medium-sized farms and food businesses. Awarded annually, our competitive mini-grants aid students as they initiate their research in sustainable agriculture and food systems.

Since 2000, the CIAS Eco-Fruit program has been helping growers reduce or eliminate risk from pesticides by using IPM. Participating growers have reduced their pesticide risk by 46 percent and increased their reliance on IPM strategies by 54 percent.

What food systems research should be prioritized over the next five years?

The September 2013 CIAS Citizens Advisory Council meeting was hosted by the Tomandl family, who operate grass-based dairy farms near Medford, and Kat Becker and […]

Want to learn more about fruits like aronia, currants, Saskatoon, and even jostaberries? CIAS worked with Dale Secher of Carandale Farm to create a website detailing Secher’s 10 years of on-farm research on uncommon fruit crops.